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Cook, John b. August 28, 1843 d. December 19, 18792nd Anglo-Afghan War Victoria Cross Recipient. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, he served as a Captain in the Bengal Staff Corps and 5th Gurkha Rifles, British Indian Army. On the dawn of December 2, 1878, at Peiwar Kotal, as the Afghans fled their positions, Captain Cook with a few men charged and killed a large number of enemy who were trying to rescue one of their guns. During this operation he saved the life of another officer by wrestling to the ground an Afghan about to shoot him with himself...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)Sherpur Cantonment Cemetery, Shirpur, Kabul, Afghanistan

Dundas, James b. September 12, 1842 d. December 23, 1879Bhutan War Victoria Cross Recipient. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, he served as a Lieutenant in the Bengal Engineers, Indian Army. On April 30, 1865, Lieutenant Dundas, with a senior officer were ordered to conduct a reconnaissance on a Block-house at Dewan-Giri, in Bhootan. The Block-house was defended with about 200 of the enemy, was reported by Lieutenant Dundas and he then went with assault force to show the way into the Block-house. He had to climb up a wall which was 14 feet high and then...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)Sean Sang Cemetery, Shirpur, Kabul, Afghanistan

Emperor Shah Babur b. 1483 d. 15301st Mughal Emperor. The Mughal Dynasty is a line of Muslim emperors who reigned in India from 1526-1858 and became a repository for all the wealth and talent of the most extensive empire in the medieval world. Babur was a descendant of the Turkish conqueror Timur on his father's side and of the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan on his mother's side. At seventeen, he was already the ruler of a small Kingdom which after being attacked was forced to flee to the southern mountains in Afghanistan...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)Babur Gardens, Kabul, Kabul, AfghanistanPlot: Hillside Terrace

Khan, Mohammed Daoud b. July 18, 1909 d. April 28, 1978Former President of Afghanistan. He served as prime minister of Afghanistan from 1956 to 1961 and from 1962 to 1967. In 1973, he overthrew his cousin, King Zahir, declaring Afghanistan a republic with himself as president. He served as president until 1978, when he was overthrown and executed, along with most of his family, by members of the communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan. His death was not publicly announced after the coup. Instead, the new government declared that...[Read More]Mohammed Daoud Khan Burial Site, Khoja-ghar, Kabul, Afghanistan

Marjan the Lion b. 1976 d. January 25, 2002Famous lion. Around 1978, the Kabul Zoo recieved as a gift from the Cologne Zoo in Germany a young lion, only two. The zoo workers named him "Marjan" which means "Coral" or "Precious Stone" in Pashtun. It was not long afterwards, in 1979, that the Soviet Army invaded, attempting to grab Afghanistan as yet another spot for use in the Cold War. Over the course of the war, the Kabul Zoo was largely spared of the ravages. But after the Russians left, civil war erupted between rival political and...[Read More] (Bio by: Mongoose)Kabul Zoo Grounds, Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan

Qadir, Haji Addul d. July 6, 2002Former head of the Northern Alliance, an Afghanistan rebel group. After the fall of the Taliban, he was elected one of three Afghan Vice Presidents. On July 6, 2002, he and his son in law were assassinated when unknown gunmen opened fire on his car. He was the brother of Abdul Haq, another Northern Alliance leader who was murdered by the Taliban. (Bio by: Erik Lander)Amir Shaheed Gardens, Jalalabad, Jowzjan, Afghanistan

Shah, Mohammad Zahir b. October 15, 1914 d. July 22, 2007Afghan Royalty. He was the last King of Afghanistan, reigning for four decades. Ascending to the throne in 1933, after his father was assassinated, his reign was one of the most tranquil periods in Afghanistan's history. He supported the traditional change issues put forth by the women, used foreign cash to develop the country's medieval infrastructure and kept a balance of peace with rival Soviet and Western cultures. In 1973, Zahir Shah was deposed in a coup by his cousin and brother-in-law...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)Mariana Hill, Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan